2012 was a year that I was extremely grateful for the cyber-campfire that is blogging. I wrote these words to you in a post about why I will never quit blogging.

A blogger strokes the keyboard, reaches through the computer screen, and taps you on the shoulder. A personal blogger writes to make you feel, to make you laugh, to make you think. A blogger (a good one) feeds your humanity. And the best part of it all, the absolute best, is that you also feed mine. It may actually be a tipped scale in my favor.

When I’m honest in my writing, it makes me feel human. But when you, the readers respond… it makes me live.

Social media continued to be my addiction in 2012, and once again I attempted to control how everyone in the universe uses Twitter.

I got to be on the review and scoring committee for the BlogHer’12 Voices Of The Year submissions. It was an honor to read the kajillion posts, to be reminded of other parents in the trenches with me, and to have my eyes bleed from the goodness of all the writing.

THis is why I love you so, your video about can we have it all. Hell no, we can not have it all at the same time. I’ve written about this before and I’ve gotten some not so nice things said to me for having the exact same opinion you have. I think we can have it all…just not at the same time and definitely not when our kids are small because we do have to pick and choose. I too chose to stay home, now my girls are both in school and my life is changing. Now, I can have a little more of the best of both worlds but I still have to choose because I am not an island…I am a mommy and that is who I chose to be and that is what I want to excel at.
Heart hugs my friend.I miss our chats. XO